His expression stiffened for a moment: "Sister, I know you resent Mom for kicking you out back then. But she was still your mother."
He Lihua remained silent with a cold face; after so many years, she had long since let it go.
Ran Jinnian deliberately said loudly, "Hey, you kicked my mother out of the house back then, what are you doing here now?"
When He Qizhong saw Ran Jinnian speak, he said impatiently, "When we elders speak, don't you, as a junior, have any manners?"
"You were able to kick orphans and widows out of your homes back then, so why would you care about these rules?" Ran Jinnian said with disdain.
"What do you know? Mom had no choice but to do it back then."
He finished speaking.
Suddenly, a number of figures appeared at the doorway.
"Ah, He Lihua was kicked out of her home."
"No wonder she has never returned to her parents' home in all these years, nor has anyone from her parents' home ever come to visit her."
“When she came here, Lu Jinyuan was only three years old, and Lu Lanlan was only one year old. How could her family be so cruel to an orphan and a widow?”
"Is this a relative? Or is this an enemy?"
The residents of the tenement building are all neighbors who have lived there for over ten years, and everyone knows each other very well.
He Lihua brought her two children here. She raised them to adulthood without ever getting married, which earned her praise from everyone.
Unexpectedly, there was such a story behind it.
He Zhongqi: "..."
He looked at the crowd at the door, wondering how these people had suddenly appeared.
Someone in the crowd shouted, "They kicked that widow and her children out back then, and now they're coming to see how well they're doing and trying to get some benefits out of them, right?"
"Yeah, they never came before, but now they've suddenly come, they're definitely here to freeload."
"This is shameless. They drove away a widow and her child, and now that their son is successful, they want to take advantage of them."
"Pooh."
Everyone looked at He Qizhong and his wife with mocking expressions.
He Qizhong looked extremely embarrassed, unable to utter the words he was about to say.
He had something to discuss with He Lihua.
Their mother is seventy-two years old this year. She was always in good health, but she slipped and fell last winter and became paralyzed.
The old woman ate, drank, and relieved herself all in bed, and the three brothers took turns caring for her for a month at a time.
But after the family had only taken care of them for a month, the three brothers were unwilling to continue.
They suddenly thought of He Lihua, their older sister, and wanted to leave the old woman with her so that she could take care of her.
If she doesn't agree, they'll go to the military region and report her son.
Her son's future was ruined.
Seeing that He Qizhong remained silent, Zhang Yufen, who had no intention of taking care of the old woman, said, "What do you mean by kicking her out? That's completely untrue. She herself didn't recognize us and ran away with her two children. We've been looking for her and her two children all these years."
She just spouts nonsense, and anyway, she didn't write any letter severing ties back then.
He Qizhong's eyes lit up: "Yes, yes, yes, the family has been looking for the mother and her two children. Sister, we've been searching for you for so many years."
Everyone?
They were completely baffled.
He Lihua never expected the He family to be so shameless; they were utterly shameless.
“You…you…” Lu’s mother stammered.
Ran Jinnian was prepared: "You said you've been searching for my mother-in-law all these years. Is Lihua Village far from Puping Town? You've been looking for her for 20 years."
He Qizhong's face darkened.
That brat.
Zhang Yufen glared at her.
She wanted nothing more than to tear the girl's mouth apart.
"Lihua Village? My wife's village is next door, very close to here."
"Ah, Pear Blossom Village, I've been there, it's not far."
"He just said he's been searching for them, mother and children, for so many years, and only now have he found them?"
The way everyone looked at He Qizhong changed again.
Lu's mother burst into tears: "Back then, you disregarded the fact that your two children were still young and drove us, a widow and her children, out in the freezing cold. I thought that the three of us would die that winter, but God opened his eyes and let me and my children survive."
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
